Teamsters Prepare To Strike Anheuser-Busch Breweries Nationwide

LOADING ERROR LOADING D.J. “We need to know they’re committed to keeping breweries open and keeping us employed.” The union contract covering 5,000 Anheuser-Busch brewery employees expires Feb. 29. “This company is going to put themselves on strike come March 1 if we don’t have an agreement that we can all be proud of.” - Jeff Padellaro, the director of the Teamsters’ brewery conference Jeff Padellaro, the director of the Teamsters’ brewery conference, said what happens at Anheuser-Busch all depends on how much the company moves on the union’s core issues by the end of February. Padellaro borrowed a phrase that he said the union leader O’Brien likes to use: “The concession stand is now closed.” Teamsters President Sean O'Brien led the union in its high-profile negotiations with UPS last year. “The ones picking up the tab on everything is us, the workforce.” - Levi Kovari, a brewer and union shop steward at Anheuser-Busch in Colorado Although he declined to discuss union proposals in detail, Padellaro said the Teamsters want assurances that workers won’t lose their positions during the life of the contract.